You may have heard this a million times from your parents or grandparents, but they always say that the old music is better than the music today. It’s more likely because the older music gives positive feelings when they have heard it before. It acts like a memory that people can read from their library mind. There has been scientific research that shows how the music we know triggers the emotional centers of the brain.
Netflix is planning to introduce a lower-priced tier that includes ads. They want to do this in the last three months of the year and they are also researching password sharing among their subscribers to make a better profit. This left the industry shocked as Netflix formerly committed to not having commercials on the streaming platform again. Looks like they changed their minds.
Elizabeth Olsen started out playing as an understudy in the Broadway play Impressionism. She never appeared on the stage, but this didn’t make Olsen lose her confidence in acting. She got her first Avengers role in Avengers: Age of Ultron as Wanda Maximoff.
On Thursday North Korea reported their first outbreak of COVID-19, leading them to completely lock down their cities and counties. Experts from other nations are skeptical because North Korea doesn’t have a lot of COVID testing materials and a weakened public health system. This can be fatal because most of their citizens are not vaccinated.
If you know the movies Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro, you probably recognize the style of their original scores. These films were composed by Joe Hisaishi, one of the most prominent artists in Japan. He incorporates classical melodies with jazz to flush out his special characteristic that soothes the soul. He has worked on over twenty feature films, all in which have a unique taste from one another.
The United States continues to split from their differences. The issue on spotlight is abortion, and with one arguing about pro-life and the other focusing on the life of the mother, there has been difficult chances to see the subject eye to eye. Some states have outlawed abortion. For women to get an abortion, some of them have crossed into different states. This can be a crime for some states too.
In San Antonio, parents are lining up in stores to get baby formula. Supplies are shortening and the parents who do have baby formula are rationing it day by day until it lasts. 56 percent of normal supplies in San Antonio were out of stock and parents struggled to find food for their children. This hurts most ln mothers who have low paying jobs, yet they still need to work and they have little time to breastfeed their kids.
If there is anything that has evoked from the pandemic, it is the rise and acknowledgement of mental health. Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score shares experiences and thoughts on overcoming a traumatic experience and techniques that are used to recover from those scars. Everyone has had at least one traumatic experience, but they either have little impact or large impact.
Max Verstappen has won the first ever Miami Grand Prix after his two roaring laps. There was a safety concern on Lap 41 when the McLaren driver spun the right-rear tyre and it ripped off. Fernando Alonso was given a five-second penalty because he left the track and had an advantage on the penultimate lap.
The Biden administration has been pushing Taiwan to buy their missiles and arms during the heat of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. American officials have been observing the Taiwanese military to see if they are able to fight off a possible invasion from China. There could be a seaborne invasion and the Russian invasion had launched a need for Taiwan to acquire more weapons.
On Sunday, May 8th, First Lady Jill Biden paid a surprising visit to Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska in Uzhhorod, Ukraine. It has been a few months since Zelenska was seen in public. She has been hiding during the Russian invasion.
If there is one thing that’s frustrating in this world, it is that women’s pants have little pockets or no pockets. Then, there are fake pockets. What is useful about fake pockets? Women’s pockets are often 48 percent shorter and 6.5 percent narrower than men’s pockets.
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